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Message-Id: <20111121163407.d8946ad8.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:34:07 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@...il.com>
Cc: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
 "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Theodore Tso
 <tytso@....EDU>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Linus Torvalds
 <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 1/3] procfs: parse mount options

On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:01:26 +0400
Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@...il.com> wrote:

> This patch adds support of procfs mount options.
> Actual mount options are coming in the next patches.

The patches look sane to me.

I assume that `mount -o remount' has been tested and works as expected?

I also assume that any file which was opened prior to the remount will
remain accessible to any process which has the fd.  Is this acceptable
from a security/operational POV?

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